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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

| International Piano

Yamaha is committed to empowering people to make waves with their sound and music

Classic FM announces opera star as new radio host

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

British-Italian singer, Freddie De Tommaso will join the line-up of presenters on the classical music broadcaster

Applications for The Honens International Piano Competition are now open

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

| International Piano

The Canada-based competition will begin with quarter finals in New York and Berlin

Editor's Choice: April 2024 | The best new classical recordings

Friday, March 22, 2024

| Gramophone

Mahler's Symphony No 6, Smetana's Má vlast, Stravinsky's Petrushka, Bruckner's Symphony No 8, Wagner's Parsifal and much more

Exploring the choral music of Avril Coleridge-Taylor

Friday, May 10, 2024

| Choir and Organ

A new regular feature from Leah Broad looks into the choral music of underrepresented composers, beginning with the complex political world of Avril Coleridge-Taylor

Editor's Choice: May 2024 | The best new classical recordings

Classical Music News

Friday, April 19, 2024

| Gramophone

Featuring outstanding new recordings of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, Chopin’s Études, Bartók’s The Wooden Prince, Mendelssohn’s Symphonies and more

Beethoven's Symphony No 9, introduced by Riccardo Chailly

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

| Gramophone

The Italian conductor believes that, in his final symphony, Beethoven reached beyond humanity

'I'm a firm believer in hard work' | Jasdeep Singh Degun Interview

Monday, April 8, 2024

| Gramophone

Gramophone meets RPS Award-winner Jasdeep Singh Degun

Sir Andrew Davis: Obituary

Friday, April 26, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Remembering the impressive and varied career of the organist and conductor

Britten Pears Arts announces £13.4 million investment programme

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

| Gramophone

Delivered over three years, the programme aims to enhance lives and improve health through creativity

Masters of Imitation (The Sixteen)

Friday, May 10, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Liszt’s Venezia e Napoli: a guide to the greatest recordings

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

Ateş Orga introduces one of Liszt’s most picturesque works, the three-part appendix to the second volume of Années de pèlerinage that documents the composer’s travels through Italy, and surveys its glittering history on record

Handel: Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne | Live Review

Monday, June 24, 2024

| Opera Now

McVicar’s Giulio Cesare conquers Glyndebourne once more

Review - Chopin: Études, Opp 10 & 25 (Yunchan Lim)

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘These works hold no difficulties for Lim, whose supple and effortless technique shines through each and every étude’

Introducing the Summer 2024 issue of Choir & Organ, featuring Masaaki and Masato Suzuki

Monday, May 13, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Masaaki and Masato Suzuki: a shared connection with Bach | Gustav Holst: exploring the composer’s choral legacy on his 150th anniversary

Review - ‘Debussy and Ravel for Two’ (Alessio Bax, Lucille Chung)

Friday, May 24, 2024

| International Piano

‘Cohesive sweep, delicacy of execution and, when required, sheer power place this among the finest readings of Debussy’s 1915 masterpiece’

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy on their piano four-hands debut album

Podcasts

Friday, June 21, 2024

| Gramophone

The two pianists, partners both off stage and on, juxtapose Schubert and Desyatnikov

Video of the Day: Josephine Knight & Gesualdo Six perform Schubert

Friday, May 17, 2024

| Choir and Organ

Taken from Knight's album, reimagining the works of Schubert

The 50 greatest Chopin recordings

Sunday, January 1, 2023

| Gramophone

Complete with the original Gramophone reviews of 50 of the finest Chopin recordings available

Opera Season Preview 2024-25

Thursday, July 11, 2024

| Opera Now

Opera Now raises the curtain on the 2024-25 season by exploring some of the key new productions to hit the world’s biggest stages

Box-set Round-up: September 2024

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Rob Cowan on two quartet collections and surveys of two composers’ piano works

The Gramophone guide to ... Soundbars

Friday, August 9, 2024

| Gramophone

Yes, using a soundbar will enhance the sound of your TV, whether for live music, sport or general viewing. But there’s a lot more to soundbars than that …

Book review - Recording British Music, by Lewis Foreman

Friday, July 12, 2024

| Gramophone

This book deserves to be snapped up by any lover of British music – and its renaissance that Foreman himself has done so much to energise

Cleveland International Piano Competition: Finding The Piano World’s Future Leaders

Friday, July 26, 2024

| Gramophone

This Sunday, July 28, one of America’s great piano competitions gets underway - don't miss it!

Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Oper Frankfurt | Live Review